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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Gaza: White House lies becoming more bizarre

by Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired

The Zionists can relax. Their backers, the US capitalist class has confirmed it will restock their arsenal of weapons of mass destruction after so many of them have been used
murdering Palestinian children over the last few weeks.

The slaughter has even caused a few harsh words between the
Zionists, the Obama administration and other US political figures.

As they send more death machines to replace those already
used, the US State Dept. and the White House condemned the shelling of a UN
school where some 3,300 Gazans were seeking shelter from the storm killing 16
of them.

The language of terror coming out of White House is bizarre
as it gets. The Obama Administration condemns the shelling but neither Obama
nor State Department officials will assign blame. "Obviously nothing justifies the killing of innocent civilians
seeking shelter in a UN facility,", says State Department spokesperson
Mary Harfand that, "Innocent Palestinians seeking refuge in these schools should not
have shells dropped on them, should not come under attack."But she then goes on to say that "we don't know for certain who
shelled this school, we need to get all the facts.".

Gaza, a concentration camp with 1.8 million people in it is
being pummeled by US armed neo-Nazis. But try as hard as they can, they can’t
figure who bombed the school.And where
might the Palestinian resistance put their primitive weaponry? Perhaps they can
store their rockets that have killed three people or so at their air base
somewhere on the outskirts of town.

The US Congress is all war criminals.The lies and distortions coming out of
Washington and the Pentagon spin-doctors are enough to make one sick.I am filled with anger and frustration. The
people that govern this country are Americans in name, in that sense they have
the same label as the rest of us.But we
are not them most of us, the Americans I see and live with are not the same.We can be
blamed for our lack of action.We can be
blamed for sticking our heads in the sand and doing whatever we can to avoid a
fight with our own corrupt rotten murderous ruling class. But like all dictatorial, terorristic regimes, it takes great shocks to dislodge them and there needs to be leadership, that is clearly absent here.

It is well known that Americans hate our own government. The
US ruling class treats its own workers with ruthless abandon and wanton
violence.The daily family anihilations
are not caused by the existence of guns.They are caused by the fear, alienation, insecurity of life here.
Poverty and insecurity among great wealth.Will I lose my job? Will I lose my home? Will I lose my health care if I
am lucky enough to have it? Better keep my mouth shut.

AP says that “More
than 100 people died in Israeli strikes across Gaza Wednesday, medics said,
including 17 at a crowded marketplace, sending the Palestinian toll from the 23
days of fighting to 1,363. On the Israeli side, the conflict has cost the lives
of 56 Israeli soldiers, and two civilians.”

That tells us all we need to know.The US says it is committed to the security
of the Israeli state but what does it mean.The US bourgeois have no love for Jews. Israel is their most reliable
ally in the region that can protects US corporate interests. The revolutionary
potential of the Arab working class is always a threat. The billions in
military hardware to the Arab regimes is also to defend them from revolt from
below. The declining US influence on the world stage makes the beast more dangerous, just like a wounded animal. All empires suffer this fate. the difference is that the folks at the Pentagon have the ability to destroy all life and they will do that if left in control of the machine as Mario Savio once said.

The foreign policy of the US ruling class will strengthen
religious fundamentalism as the only force able to combat US aggression and the
occupiers and is not in in the interests of US workers.

The failure of the heads of organized labor at the highest
levels to condemn the slaughter in Palestine and the US role in it places them
in the role of executioners as well. They are not innocent bystanders. The more
they remain silent the more they are implicated in the crimes.

Little Bolivia has declared Israel a terrorist state.Good for Morales.